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“Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.”

Humans Pain Joy Acting Laughing Misery Communicate

Author:Rosamund Pike

“Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Character Acting Accepting Roles Easier Who You Are Just Being Covering

Author:Peter MacNicol

“Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.”

Acting Missing Representing

Author:Katherine Parkinson

“Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.”

People Way Giving Play Acting Roles Seeking Who I Am Hiding Reserves Stamps Foreheads Escaping Rubber Anonymity

Author:Alan Rickman

“Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.”

Way Long Acting Listening Wayne Reacting

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Acting is about listening, and that's something that took me awhile. You almost don't have to learn your lines, if you listen to what they're saying and move it along.”

Ifs Moving Lines Acting Listening

Author:Mark McGrath

“Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.”

People Acting Monologues

Author:Daniel Day-Lewis

“Acting is about truths and the more truths you're able to tell and share with your audience the more connection there will be.”

Able Acting Audience Share Connections

Author:Glynn Turman

“Acting is acting, and who you are will still remain to be who you are. You know, that part won't change it. It will change your wallet, you know? It'll change your life. It will open opportunities for you, but it's not going to change your character.”

Character Opportunity Acting Who You Are Changing Your Life

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“Acting is acting, as far as I'm concerned and, you know, how you manifest it is, at the end of the day, not the point. It's how it affects the story & how it affects the audience. And if people are hungry to be told stories, using, using this form then there's a reason for that.”

People Ifs Knows Ends Reason Stories Form Acting Audience Know How Concerned Hungry The End Of The Day Manifest

Author:Andy Serkis

“Acting is actually private.”

Acting

Author:Joan Chen

“Acting is all about being truthful. I'm really bad at lying. I'm one of the worst liars I know.”

Knows Lying Acting Worst Liars Truthful Being Truthful

Author:Dane DeHaan

“Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.”

World Acting Findings Finding Out The Truth

Author:Karen Gillan

“Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

“Acting is all about likability.”

Acting

Author:Clive Owen

“Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.”

Acting Honest Honesty Capable Sensitivity Truth And Honesty

Author:Thomas Kretschmann

“Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.”

Knows Acting

Author:Tyler Posey

“Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.”

People Dream Acting Invites

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“Acting is always a challenge.”

Challenges Acting

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.”

World Want Acting Aspect Roots Excited Core Filmmaking

Author:Nicolas Cage

“Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.”

Want Happens School Film My Own Numbers Acting Film School

Author:Joseph Mazzello

“Acting is always more fun for me.I love being a part of a story, I love collaborating, I love working with different directors. If I just directed more and more, it would lessen the opportunity to work with all these big directors that I've had the opportunity to work with.”

Ifs Different Stories Bigs Opportunity Fun Love Is Acting Directors Collaborating

Author:John Krasinski

“Acting is always sort of the same - like you want to be - you know you're pretending and you want to make it as real as you can. That's the similarity. The mediums other than that are completely different. I mean you know with camera work you're doing really small detailed work and you know if you do anything too big you've sort of failed. And with stage, especially with the play I'm doing right now, I'm doing a farce, and it's so over the top that you can't actually be too big. So it's just completely different.”

Mean Different Real Acting Like You Pretending Similarity Doing Right

Author:Mary McCormack

“Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.”

Acting Careers Annoying Aesthetic

Author:Tamsin Egerton

“Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing.”

Animal Acting Intellectual

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Acting is an art and a science and there is more to me then that young blonde kid.”

Art Kids Young Acting Blonde

Author:Michael Welch

“Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.”

Thinking Want Art Play Character Form Fun Challenges Dark Acting Roles

Author:James Franco

“Acting is an empty and useless profession.”

Funny Acting Empty Profession April April Fools Day

Author:Marlon Brando

“Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.”

Persons Real Acting Boring Real Life Boring Person

Author:Wallace Shawn

“Acting is an everlasting search for truth.”

Acting Theatre Everlasting Search For Truth

Author:Laurence Olivier

“Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.”

Trying Different Imagination Acting Circumstances Leap Imaginative

Author:John Hurt

“Acting is an imaginative leap, really. And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell you how one does, but one tries to read those circumstances correctly.”

Trying Doe I Can Different Able Imagination Acting Circumstances Leap Imaginative

Author:John Hurt

“Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.”

People Moving Acting Lifestyle Odd Loops

Author:Talulah Riley

“Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.”

Acting Vulnerable Uncomfortable

Author:Beau Garrett

“Acting is attached to almost everyone in Los Angeles. Everyone has stars in their eyes when they come out here. I have an expression... it's like if you turn to the left and if you turn the right; if they're not an actor, you are. It's essentially true.”

Eye Acting Los Angeles

Author:Chris Demetral

“Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor”

Ifs Actors Acting Emotion Audience Cry Objects Emotional Shirts Weeping Wailing Bad Acting

Author:Rex Harrison

“Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances.”

Acting Circumstances Imaginary Theatre Actors

Author:Sanford Meisner

“Acting is being susceptible to what is around you, and it's letting it all come in. Acting is a clearing away of everything except what you want and need - and it's wonderful in that way. And when it's right, you're lost in the moment.”

Way Want Needs Moments Actors Lost Acting Wonderful What You Want Susceptible Clearing Wants And Needs

Author:Meryl Streep

“Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.”

Thinking Way Want Different Enough Stories Church Acting Race Circumstances Approach Picks Broads Different Times

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.”

Two Actors Process Acting Roles Entity Characterization Merging

Author:George C. Scott

“Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it's almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.”

Men Two Actors Acting Team Juggling Sync

Author:Steve Martin

“Acting is constant exploration.”

Acting Constant Exploration

Author:Paul Guilfoyle

“Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.”

Lines Acting Rhythm

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.”

Writing Three Acting Dangerous Creation Months Three Months

Author:Sophie Marceau

“Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.”

Ifs Mind Acting Right Now Entertainment Of My Mind

Author:Tina Yothers

“Acting is different all the time. When you're on set, different films, or just even in between, it's never the same. I think that's one of the things I love about it.”

Thinking Different Film Acting Things I Love

Author:Bella Heathcote

“Acting is different from dance. The black-and-whiteness of dancing is mostly about the technical form - like, this is how people have been doing it for millions of years. You can't let down those ballerinas who died a long time ago. My teacher will say, "This person would be ashamed!" And it's like, oh God. But with acting, it's different because people like something fresh. You can mix it up and create your own thing and it's not necessarily wrong.”

People Long Different Acting Teacher Dancing Ashamed Ballerina

Author:Elle Fanning

“Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.”

Giving Persons Different Character Ability Acting

Author:Robin Williams

“Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.”

World Acting Divine Satisfied Dissatisfaction

Author:Jim Carrey

“Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.”

Kind Persons Action Acting Connected Verbs

Author:Mira Sorvino

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